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“I was so excited to be able to say that I was a lesbian that I would shake hands with strangers on the street and say, 'Hi! I'm Sally Gearhart and I'm a lesbian.' Once, appearing on a panel program, I began, 'I'm Sally Lesbian and I'm a gearhart!' I realized then that I had put too much of my identity into being lesbian.”

Sally Gearhart,

in Leigh W. Rutledge, ed., Unnatural Quotations: A Compendium of Quotations by, for, or about Gay People (1988)